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The Biden administration announced that it will end coal leasing in the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, keeping billions of tons of highly polluting coal in the ground.

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President Joe Bidens government on Thursday announced a plan to end coal leases in the Powder River Basin, the nations largest coal-producing region, drawing condemnation from the mining sector and

Sen. Jon Tester, in one of the year's toughest reelection contests, has tangoed with the administration on climate issues before.

Center for Biological Diversity: Decision Will Keep Nearly 6 Billion Tons of Highly Polluting Coal in Ground

President Joe Biden's government on Thursday announced it was ending coal leases in the Powder River Basin, the nation's largest coal-producing region, drawing condemnation from the mining sector and praise from environmentalists.

The Biden administration on Thursday strengthened protections of the Endangered Species Act, repealing Trump-era rules that had stripped safeguards for plants and animals that are threatened by human development and the climate crisis.

The Biden administration on Thursday strengthened protections of the Endangered Species Act, repealing Trump-era rules that had stripped safeguards for plants and animals that are threatened by human development and the climate crisis.

We had some classic end-of-session hijinks after all.

Climate activists have developed plans to foil a provision Senator Manchin put into the new climate law that ties renewable energy projects to more oil and...